Restoring Sight

Jesus is in the business of restoring Sight; helping people regain vision. You may feel somewhat lost in this world right now. You don’t know which way to turn. You or someone else has made a mess of things. You are not soaring, but sinking. You have lost your bearing. You may feel as if your spiritual vision is too clouded, the corrosion that has built up on your soul too thick, the fog too dense, the way back too hard to see let alone understand your present or look to the future. But God is a God of 2nd and 3rd and 50th chances. Jesus restores sight to the blind. If it is your desire to have greater spiritual perception, ask God and He will grant it. Jesus, I wish to see. Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things in Your Word. Pray that the eyes of your heart would be enlightened. Paul prayed that for you. You can be refocused. You can regain sight that has grown dim.

God will grant your request but the answer may not come in the way you envision it. You may think you are going to a land flowing with milk and honey when you are about to walk through the valley of the shadow of death – God may have reserved some severe testing for you to go through – all for His glory and your good – but nonetheless painful and hard and difficult. It may be something not of your choosing. But our Father knows best. He knows what He is doing. He knows what He has purposed. It is His good pleasure to give you the kingdom. It is His desire to build into you the marvelous substance of spiritual depth and understanding. Samuel Rutherford wrote years ago of believers wanting heaven coming to our bedside so that we may go to heaven in warm clothes, but that often what we find is sharp storms and wet feet and many enemies by the way. We don’t usually get depth through easiness, we get it through trial.

When Jesus restores our spiritual sight we are like the man in John 9 who had his physical sight restored. We wonder n amazement and thenlive in gratitude. As he said, "One thing I know, that though I was blind, now I see" (John 9:25). May you see Jesus more clearly than you ever have before. May you look to Jesus, the Author and Perfector of faith.